The Boston Globe has just laid out a one–two–three–four-part series that both politicians and Pulitzer Prize panels should be carefully studying. The Globe team wrote about what happens when someone falls behind on a credit card. The stories are shocking: People have been sent to jail over credit card debts. People have been bullied and threatened and treated like dirt. People who needed their cars to get to work were forced to pay ransoms of thousands of dollars more than the original debt just to get their cars back after a collection agent wrongfully seized it. The stories show how hard-working people hanging on to the fragile edge of the middle class had their lives turned upside down by a credit card bill they couldn’t repay.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250375